Category: Electronics

3D Video and Nausia

Rick Electronics, Home Theater January 11, 2010

The Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) just wrapped up in Las Vegas and one of the main themes was 3D video coming to home televisions. Along with this, the big movie Avatar is being shown in many locations in 3D. While 3D adoption will grow, there are some problems such as having to wear silly glasses
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Harmony Remote Favorite Channel Icon Image

Robert Electronics, Home Theater January 9, 2010

If you’ve got a recent harmony remote such as the Harmony One and have hard to remember 3 or 4 digit TV channels, setting up favorites can be very useful. Then you just have to select the channel on the remote and the right numbers are sent. To make things even prettier, you can define
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Christmas Lights

Rick Electronics December 25, 2009

Happy holidays! Unless you hate Christmas and live next to a house blaring music like this. WARNING: video may induce epileptic seizure.

Buying a Home Theater Projector

Rick Electronics, Home Theater, Shopping December 9, 2009

Why you should buy a home theater projector Screen size. For the ultimate large screen (100+ inch) theater experience, a front projector is the only solution under $80,000. There are large LCD, Plasma, and rear-projector televisions, but none over 100 inches that can practically be purchased or fit through your door. Why you should not
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Old Kindle and Kindle 2 users get no improved battery life

Robert Computer Hardware, Electronics, Mobile November 26, 2009

Kindle Battery Update.. Not For Most People It has been widely reported that the recent Kindle firmware update improved battery life up to 85%. Unfortunately, this is not true for almost all Kindle owners. The battery life improvement only applies to the recent Kindle 2 (Global Wireless) version that was introduced October 7, 2009. The
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